Finn Juhl‘s Prolonged Aubertin Wall Couch, initially designed in 1951 for timber service provider W. F. Aubertin, is being relaunched by the Home of Finn Juhl on the reclaimed Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, Denmark.
Within the newly designed room at on the museum, the piece is showcased alongside different Finn Juhl items, together with the Ross Espresso Desk, the Hearth Chair and the Panel System, in addition to a sculpture by Icelandic sculptor Sigurjón Ólafsson. The room’s inside displays the democratic preferrred of creating artwork and craftsmanship accessible to all, a imaginative and prescient shared by famend Danish painter, Asger Jorn.
The Wall Couch is an exemplary piece of groundbreaking Danish design and has been on everlasting show on the Nationwide Museum of Ornamental Arts and Design in Trondheim, Norway, since 1952. That yr, artwork historian and museum director Thorvald Krohn-Hansen commissioned Finn Juhl to design an exhibition area for contemporary furnishings and crafts, that includes the organically formed couch that displays Juhl’s fascination with fashionable summary artwork and his want to create a way of motion in his designs. Though Juhl included the Wall Couch into varied interiors, the extra-long model has by no means been in steady manufacturing.
Now, the Wall Couch Aubertin is being relaunched at Museum Jorn in a devoted area that mirrors the room on the Nationwide Museum of Ornamental Arts and Design in Trondheim, that includes an analogous colour scheme, furnishings and artwork to honor his legacy. This made-to-order, totally upholstered couch can accommodate as much as six folks and options an asymmetrical backrest and seat that seem to drift on an virtually invisible body.
Museum Jorn
Gudenåvej 7-9, 8600 Silkeborg, Denmark
